• Corporate management (strategic management, organization and change management, personnel management and leadership) as well as strategic controlling in the healthcare and non-profit sector
• Fundamentals of Business Administration/Management (also case study-based and with (computer-aided) business games, also for related disciplines)
• Problem solving and communication
• Scientific work
• Number-oriented business administration (quantitative techniques, cost and performance accounting, bookkeeping)
• Various courses (health economic evaluations, payers and drugs, data seminar and methods seminar in healthcare)

Main research areas

• Cooperation management and organizational sociological aspects of the interaction of actors, esp. in healthcare
• Health promotion and prevention against the background of demographic challenges in society and companies (diversity: ageing, gender aspects, migration)
• Planetary Health
• Ethical aspects of healthcare
• Strategic management, leadership and human resource management in companies, non-profit and healthcare organizations
• Service and university management

functions within the university:

• Program Director Bachelor Integrative Health Promotion

Functions outside the university:

• Expert/reviewer for the German Council of Science and Humanities 2016/2017, 2020/21
• Commission member of the Max Weber Program Bavaria of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes e.V., since 09/2008.
• Member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Aging Research (ICA) at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (board member from 11/2008-03/2011), since 03/2008.
• Reviewer for specialist journals (Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, Zeitschrift Hochschulmanagement, Zeitschrift Logistics Research, Zeitschrift HMD – Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik and specialist conferences (in the field of university management, 72nd and 74th Annual Scientific Conference of the Association of University Professors of Business Administration (VHB Conference))

• since September 2021: Professor of Health Promotion and Prevention at Coburg University of Applied Sciences

• since October 2010: Lecturer at the Chair of Corporate Management at FAU

• September 2013 to August 2021: Professor of Health Care Management at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Nursing and Health

• October 2010 to August 2013: Professor of Business Administration in Healthcare at the Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Management

• since April 2009: Lecturer at the Institute of Psychogerontology at FAU

• April 2008 to September 2010: Research Assistant/Academic Senior Councillor at the Chair of Corporate Management at FAU

• October 1997 to March 2008: Managing Assistant at the Institute of Business Administration at the FAU

• June 1996 to September 1997: Research assistant at the Chair of International Management at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg FAU

• Since November 2008: Awarded the right to award doctorates at the Faculty of Law and Economics, Department of Economics at FAU

• November 2008: Awarded the Venia Legendi for the subject of Business Administration at FAU

• March 2003 to November 2008: Habilitation candidate and lecturer (until September 2010) at the Chair of Health Management at FAU

• October 1997 to February 2003: PhD student at the Chair of Operations Research, Health Economics Research Group (Dr. rer. pol.) at FAU

• December 2000: Degree in psychogerontology (postgraduate course in psychogerontology at  FAU)

• June 1996: Degree in Business Administration (Business Studies at FAU and Glasgow Business School, University of Glasgow)